Word: acridly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Galloper" who tamed wild Irishmen, to scathing "F. E.," master of acrid but urbane debate in both Houses of Parliament, to Great Britain's youngest Lord Chancellor, to the great and frankly snobbish Earl of Birkenhead whose aristocracy was that of "first class brains," came last week a strangely gentle Death...
...seldom that his sermons received front-page space. Yet last week the Cleveland Plain Dealer front-paged the Sunday sermon of Rev. J. M. Russell, pastor of the Monroe Memorial United Presbyterian Church of Akron, Ohio. The reason: Mr. Russell's sermon was one of the most acrid attacks on the rubber industry yet heard, and many a Clevelander, especially Goodyear-controlling Mr. Eaton, has a stake in that industry...
Volpone. Ben Jonson's acrid comedy of the Levantine who pretended illness in order to extract gifts from those who wished to be remembered in his will, has been a staple of the Theatre Guild both in Manhattan and on the road. The Guild now brings it back to Manhattan, excellently played by a cast including Earle Larimore as the servant Mosca who outfoxed his bedridden master...
...with banners, assembled to make speeches, sing the "Internationale." President Hoover, writing busily at his desk had announced that the demonstration was not to be interfered with "unless they become disorderly." One William Lawrence, agitator, attempted to climb the White House fence. Police judged the incident sufficiently disorderly, threw acrid tear gas bombs, charged the crowd with blackjacks, arrested eleven men, two girls, started a panic among spectators...
...Fair Grounds where week before last the winter race meeting was at its height, the horses, lying down or standing motionless in their stalls, slept in darkness. The smell in the wooden barns was a smell of hay, liniment and leather. Through these pleasant smells there drifted presently the acrid odor of smoke. A tall chestnut plater flicked his ears and stumbled to his feet, making a sudden muffled thunder in the darkness...